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I was sorry to learn that Svoboda's is no longer around.  I took my wife
there for our first date, in September 1969.  We were married and will
celebrate our 35th anniversary this coming October.  I was hoping I
could take our children and grandchildren there.  It was a great place
to have fun.  We are sad to see it go.

Jim Mulhearn

  [ Al and Flo Svoboda closed their Chicago Heights, Ill., tavern and
  [ mechanical music paradise in 1982.  For more information on it,
  [ see "Svoboda" in the MMD archives, or p. 290-294 of Art Reblitz'
  [ "The Golden Age Of Automatic Musical Instruments," or for a detailed
  [ history of the enterprise, the Winter 1989 and Spring 1990 issues
  [ of "Mechanical Music, Journal of the Musical Box Society
  [ International."
  [
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